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A mother is backing the decision to give girls as young as 10 a contraceptive implant.

Megan Oakley believes that if children are sexually active, even if they are not of the age of consent, they should be provided with contraceptive.

Speaking on This Morning the 19-year-old said: “I’m obviously not saying for ten years old to go out and have sex but if they are having sex before the age of consent they should be using contraceptive to avoid teen pregnancy.”

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Megan fell pregnant with her son Ashton-Tyler when she was just 13-years-old and still at school.

At the time she says she was clueless about different types of contraception available, as was her boyfriend who was slightly older.

“At 13 I didn’t have much sex education taught to me. All I got taught in school was about personal hygiene and head lice,” she shared.

“Both of us where so young we didn’t think it would happen to us.”

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Fortunately Megan was fully supported by her mother when she made the decision to keep her baby.

At after giving birth when she was just 14, which she described as ‘traumatic’, she returned to school, got her GCSE’s and went to collage.

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It wasn’t an easy experience though: “Walking about school everyone knew me as the girl who was pregnant or the girl who had a kid.

“I had a lot of negativity form it. It was really scary. At 13 you don’t really know how to deal with people’s comments.”

These days Megan wants to ensure children do have the option for advice if they start having sex at a young age and she works as a voluntary peer educator to share her story.

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